THIRD YEAR.
Materia Medica.—Three hours of lectures and recitations and three hours
of laboratory work weekly during the first half of the third year. The more
important drugs and preparations of the Pharmacopœia, together with
newer non-official remedies which bid fair to attain or have attained considerable
use, from the subject of study. In the laboratory the student becomes
familiar with the peculiarities and methods of preparation of the
different preparations of the Pharmacopœia, as well as with the solubilities
and other characteristics of the more important drugs. Especial attention
is paid to chemical and pharmaceutical incompatibility. Prescription writing
is dealt with by lecture and frequent practical exercises. Dr. Waddell.
Toxicology.—Three hours of lectures and recitations and three hours of
laboratory work weekly during the last half of the second term. This course is,
to a considerable extent, a review of the pharmacological actions of poisons
and their antagonists. The treatment of poisoning is dealt with in detail.
Some attention is given to the methods of separation and identification.
Dr. Waddell.
Clinical Diagnosis.—Six hours weekly during the first and second terms.
In this course the student is made familiar with those laboratory methods
which are helpful in the diagnosis of disease. These include, among others,
the examination of blood, urine, sputum, gastric contents, feces, spinal fluid,
exudates and transudates. Instruction is given in the recently completed
Clinical Laboratory in the north pavilion of the hospital, which is well
equipped with the most modern instruments and apparatus. Dr. Bray.
Theory and Practice of Medicine.—Three hours weekly of lectures and
recitations throughout the session; nine hours weekly in the clinics for one-half
the session. A systematic course of lectures, supplemented by work in the
out-patient department and hospital. The class is divided into two sections,
each of which devotes itself for half the year to the medical service in the
out-patient department, and also twice a week receives instruction on selected
cases in the wards of the hospital. There is a general medical clinic
once a week in the hospital amphitheater. Dr. Davis, Dr. Flippin, Dr. Daniel,
Dr. Nelson and Dr. Smith.
Surgery and Gynecology.—Five hours weekly of lectures and recitations,
and two hours weekly of surgical clinic throughout the session; with six hours
weekly in the out-patient department, two hours weekly in ward rounds in the
hospital, and one hour weekly in X-ray diagnosis for one-fourth the session.
The study of surgery begins in the third year and continues through the
fourth year. In the third year the classroom work consists of lectures and
recitations, as arranged in the schedule, in which the principles and practice
of surgery, surgical diseases, surgical diagnosis, etc., are thoroughly
discussed. This also includes the surgical specialties, orthopedics, genito-urinary
surgery, etc. The out-patient department course in the third year
gives opportunities for diagnosis and treatment of clinical cases under close
personal supervision. Experience in dressings, bandaging, anesthesia and
minor surgery is afforded. Surgical appliances and technique are demonstrated
to the students, divided into small groups. The work in gynecology
follows closely the outlines already described for surgery. The general
principles of gynecology are taken up in lectures and recitations. In addition,
the out-patient department affords practice in palpation, diagnosis and
treatment. Dr. Watts, Dr. Goodwin, Dr. Neff, Dr. Woodberry and Dr.
Wright.
Obstetrics.—Five hours weekly of lectures, recitations and manikin demonstrations
during the year, supplemented by work with patients in the wards
of the hospital. The class is divided into sections of five for manikin instruction
and for examination of patients in the hospital. The manikin
course forms an important part of the work, not only for teaching presentation,
position and posture, but also the mechanism of normal and abnormal
labor and the application of forceps. When the section is taken
into the wards of the hospital, the methods of examination, particularly
abdominal palpation, are practiced on the living subject. Dr. Macon.
